Border politics
Subtitle: the limits of sovereign power
By: Nick Vaughan-Williams.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780748637324
Subjects: Boundaries; Boundaries -- Philosophy
Description: "This book presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in contemporary political life. The author uses critical resources found in poststructuralist thought to think in new ways about the relationship between borders, security and sovereign power, drawing on a range of thinkers including Agamben, Derrida and Foucault. He highlights the necessity of a more pluralized and radicalised view of what borders are and where they might be found and uses the problem of borders to critically explore the innovations and limits of poststructuralist scholarship."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.